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2010-05-20Change the "N. Central Asia Standard Time" timezone to map toMagnus Hagander
Asia/Novosibirsk on Windows. Microsoft changed the behaviour of this zone in the timezone update from KB976098. The zones differ in handling of DST, and the old zone was just removed. Noted by Dmitry Funk
2010-05-17> Follow up a visit from the style police.Andrew Dunstan
2010-05-14tag 8.4.4REL8_4_4Marc G. Fournier
2010-05-13Fix MSVC builds for recent plperl changes. Go back to version 8.2, which isAndrew Dunstan
where we started supporting MSVC builds. Security: CVE-2010-1169
2010-05-13Prevent PL/Tcl from loading the "unknown" module from pltcl_modules unlessTom Lane
that is a regular table or view owned by a superuser. This prevents a trojan horse attack whereby any unprivileged SQL user could create such a table and insert code into it that would then get executed in other users' sessions whenever they call pltcl functions. Worse yet, because the code was automatically loaded into both the "normal" and "safe" interpreters at first use, the attacker could execute unrestricted Tcl code in the "normal" interpreter without there being any pltclu functions anywhere, or indeed anyone else using pltcl at all: installing pltcl is sufficient to open the hole. Change the initialization logic so that the "unknown" code is only loaded into an interpreter when the interpreter is first really used. (That doesn't add any additional security in this particular context, but it seems a prudent change, and anyway the former behavior violated the principle of least astonishment.) Security: CVE-2010-1170
2010-05-13Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it isAndrew Dunstan
fundamentally insecure. Instead apply an opmask to the whole interpreter that imposes restrictions on unsafe operations. These restrictions are much harder to subvert than is Safe.pm, since there is no container to be broken out of. Backported to release 7.4. In releases 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 this also includes the necessary backporting of the two interpreters model for plperl and plperlu adopted in release 8.2. In versions 8.0 and up, the use of Perl's POSIX module to undo its locale mangling on Windows has become insecure with these changes, so it is replaced by our own routine, which is also faster. Nice side effects of the changes include that it is now possible to use perl's "strict" pragma in a natural way in plperl, and that perl's $a and $b variables now work as expected in sort routines, and that function compilation is significantly faster. Tim Bunce and Andrew Dunstan, with reviews from Alex Hunsaker and Alexey Klyukin. Security: CVE-2010-1169
2010-05-13Translation updatePeter Eisentraut
2010-05-11Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010j: DST law changes inTom Lane
Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia. Historical corrections for Taiwan.
2010-05-11Add PKST to the default set of timezone abbreviations.Tom Lane
Per discussion, if we have PKT in there then PKST should be too. Also, fix mistaken claim that these abbrevs are not known to zic.
2010-05-11Cause the archiver process to adopt new postgresql.conf settings (particularlyTom Lane
archive_command) as soon as possible, namely just before issuing a new call of archive_command, even when there is a backlog of files to be archived. The original coding would only absorb new settings after clearing the backlog and returning to the outer loop. Per discussion. Back-patch to 8.3. The logic in prior versions is a bit different and it doesn't seem worth taking any risks of breaking it.
2010-05-11Set per-function GUC settings during validating the function.Itagaki Takahiro
Now validators work properly even when the settings contain parameters that affect behavior of the function, like search_path. Reported by Erwin Brandstetter.
2010-05-09Suppress signed-vs-unsigned-char warning.Tom Lane
2010-05-08Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format.Tom Lane
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be counted either in bytes or characters. Our code was assuming bytes, which is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do. Hence, for portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s" unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII. This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez. In HEAD only, I also added comments to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
2010-05-07ECPG connect routine only checked for NULL to find empty parameters, but ↵Michael Meskes
user and password can also be "".
2010-05-05Fix psql to not go into infinite recursion when expanding a variable thatTom Lane
refers to itself (directly or indirectly). Instead, print a message when recursion is detected, and don't expand the repeated reference. Per bug #5448 from Francis Markham. Back-patch to 8.0. Although the issue exists in 7.4 as well, it seems impractical to fix there because of the lack of any state stack that could be used to track active expansions.
2010-05-02Fix replay of XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE WAL records to pay attention to the forknumTom Lane
field of the WAL record. The previous coding always wrote to the main fork, resulting in data corruption if the page was meant to go into a non-default fork. At present, the only operation that can produce such WAL records is ALTER TABLE/INDEX SET TABLESPACE when executed with archive_mode = on. Data corruption would be observed on standby slaves, and could occur on the master as well if a database crash and recovery occurred after committing the ALTER and before the next checkpoint. Per report from Gordon Shannon. Back-patch to 8.4; the problem doesn't exist in earlier branches because we didn't have a concept of multiple relation forks then.
2010-05-01Add code to InternalIpcMemoryCreate() to handle the case where shmget()Tom Lane
returns EINVAL for an existing shared memory segment. Although it's not terribly sensible, that behavior does meet the POSIX spec because EINVAL is the appropriate error code when the existing segment is smaller than the requested size, and the spec explicitly disclaims any particular ordering of error checks. Moreover, it does in fact happen on OS X and probably other BSD-derived kernels. (We were able to talk NetBSD into changing their code, but purging that behavior from the wild completely seems unlikely to happen.) We need to distinguish collision with a pre-existing segment from invalid size request in order to behave sensibly, so it's worth some extra code here to get it right. Per report from Gavin Kistner and subsequent investigation. Back-patch to all supported versions, since any of them could get used with a kernel having the debatable behavior.
2010-04-30Fix multiple memory leaks in PLy_spi_execute_fetch_result: it would leakTom Lane
memory if the result had zero rows, and also if there was any sort of error while converting the result tuples into Python data. Reported and partially fixed by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported versions. Note: I haven't tested the 7.4 fix. 7.4's configure check for python is so obsolete it doesn't work on my current machines :-(. The logic change is pretty straightforward though.
2010-04-16On Windows, syslogger runs in two threads. The main thread processes configHeikki Linnakangas
reload and rotation signals, and a helper thread reads messages from the pipe and writes them to the log file. However, server code isn't generally thread-safe, so if both try to do e.g palloc()/pfree() at the same time, bad things will happen. To fix that, use a critical section (which is like a mutex) to enforce that only one the threads are active at a time.
2010-04-15Fix psql's \copy to not insert spaces around dots and commas in the text ofTom Lane
the SELECT query in \copy (SELECT ...) commands. This is unnecessary and breaks numeric literals, as seen in bug #5411 from Vitalii Tymchyshyn. This change has already been made in passing in HEAD; backpatch to 8.2 through 8.4 (earlier releases don't have COPY (SELECT ...) at all).
2010-04-14Fix plpgsql's exec_eval_expr() to ensure it returns a sane type OIDTom Lane
even when the expression is a query that returns no rows. So far as I can tell, the only caller that actually fails when a garbage OID is returned is exec_stmt_case(), which is new in 8.4 --- in all other cases, we might make a useless trip through casting logic, but we won't fail since the isnull flag will be set. Hence, backpatch only to 8.4, just in case there are apps out there that aren't expecting an error to be thrown if the query returns more or less than one column. (Which seems unlikely, since the error would be thrown if the query ever did return a row; but it's possible there's some never-exercised code out there.) Per report from Mario Splivalo.
2010-04-14Fix a problem introduced by my patch of 2010-01-12 that revised the wayTom Lane
relcache reload works. In the patched code, a relcache entry in process of being rebuilt doesn't get unhooked from the relcache hash table; which means that if a cache flush occurs due to sinval queue overrun while we're rebuilding it, the entry could get blown away by RelationCacheInvalidate, resulting in crash or misbehavior. Fix by ensuring that an entry being rebuilt has positive refcount, so it won't be seen as a target for removal if a cache flush occurs. (This will mean that the entry gets rebuilt twice in such a scenario, but that's okay.) It appears that the problem can only arise within a transaction that has previously reassigned the relfilenode of a pre-existing table, via TRUNCATE or a similar operation. Per bug #5412 from Rusty Conover. Back-patch to 8.2, same as the patch that introduced the problem. I think that the failure can't actually occur in 8.2, since it lacks the rd_newRelfilenodeSubid optimization, but let's make it work like the later branches anyway. Patch by Heikki, slightly editorialized on by me.
2010-04-09Clean up inconsistent commasMagnus Hagander
2010-04-09Update list of Windows timezones we try to match localized names againstMagnus Hagander
to one that's up to date with Windows 2003R2.
2010-04-08Proceed to look for the next timezone when matching a localizedMagnus Hagander
Windows timezone name where the information in the registry is incomplete, instead of aborting. This fixes cases when the registry information is incomplete for a timezone that is alphabetically before the one that is in use. Per report from Alexander Forschner
2010-04-06Log the actual timezone name that we fail to look up the values for inMagnus Hagander
case the registry data doesn't follow the format we expect, to facilitate debugging.
2010-04-03Sync perl's ppport.h on all branches back to 7.4 with recent update on HEAD, ↵Andrew Dunstan
ensuring we can build older branches with modern Perl installations.
2010-04-01Don't pass an invalid file handle to dup2(). That causes a crash onHeikki Linnakangas
Windows, thanks to a feature in CRT called Parameter Validation. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows. In 8.2 and 8.3 also backpatch the earlier change to use DEVNULL instead of NULL_DEV #define for a /dev/null-like device. NULL_DEV was hard-coded to "/dev/null" regardless of platform, which didn't work on Windows, while DEVNULL works on all platforms. Restarting syslogger didn't work on Windows on versions 8.3 and below because of that.
2010-03-30Fix "constraint_exclusion = partition" logic so that it will also attemptTom Lane
constraint exclusion on an inheritance set that is the target of an UPDATE or DELETE query. Per gripe from Marc Cousin. Back-patch to 8.4 where the feature was introduced.
2010-03-25Prevent ALTER USER f RESET ALL from removing the settings that were put thereAlvaro Herrera
by a superuser -- "ALTER USER f RESET setting" already disallows removing such a setting. Apply the same treatment to ALTER DATABASE d RESET ALL when run by a database owner that's not superuser.
2010-03-24Fix thinko in log message for "sameuser" ident map mismatch: the providedTom Lane
and authenticated usernames were swapped. Reported by Bryan Henderson in bug #5386. Also clean up poorly-maintained header comment for this function.
2010-03-20Clear error_context_stack and debug_query_string at the beginning of proc_exit,Tom Lane
so that we won't try to attach any context printouts to messages that get emitted while exiting. Per report from Dennis Koegel, the context functions won't necessarily work after we've started shutting down the backend, and it seems possible that debug_query_string could be pointing at freed storage as well. The context information doesn't seem particularly relevant to such messages anyway, so there's little lost by suppressing it. Back-patch to all supported branches. I can only demonstrate a crash with log_disconnections messages back to 8.1, but the risk seems real in 8.0 and before anyway.
2010-03-19Modify error context callback functions to not assume that they can fetchTom Lane
catalog entries via SearchSysCache and related operations. Although, at the time that these callbacks are called by elog.c, we have not officially aborted the current transaction, it still seems rather risky to initiate any new catalog fetches. In all these cases the needed information is readily available in the caller and so it's just a matter of a bit of extra notation to pass it to the callback. Per crash report from Dennis Koegel. I've concluded that the real fix for his problem is to clear the error context stack at entry to proc_exit, but it still seems like a good idea to make the callbacks a bit less fragile for other cases. Backpatch to 8.4. We could go further back, but the patch doesn't apply cleanly. In the absence of proof that this fixes something and isn't just paranoia, I'm not going to expend the effort.
2010-03-18Fix bug in %r handling in recovery_end_command, it always came out as 0Heikki Linnakangas
because InRedo was cleared before recovery_end_command was executed. Also, always take ControlFileLock when reading checkpoint location for %r. That didn't matter before, but in 8.4 bgwriter is active during recovery and can modify the control file concurrently.
2010-03-12tag 8.4.3REL8_4_3Marc G. Fournier
2010-03-11Add missing reset of need_initialization in reloptions code.Tom Lane
This resulted in useless extra work during every call of parseRelOptions, but no bad effects other than that. Noted by Alvaro.
2010-03-11Sync timezone code with tzcode 2010c from the Olson group. This fixes someTom Lane
corner cases that come up in certain timezones (apparently, only those with lots and lots of distinct TZ transition rules, as far as I can gather from a quick scan of their archives). Per suggestion from Jeevan Chalke. Back-patch to 8.4. Possibly we need to push this into earlier releases as well, but I'm hesitant to update them to the 64-bit tzcode without more thought and testing.
2010-03-09Use SvROK(sv) rather than directly checking SvTYPE(sv) == SVt_RV in plperl.Tom Lane
The latter is considered unwarranted chumminess with the implementation, and can lead to crashes with recent Perl versions. Report and fix by Tim Bunce. Back-patch to all versions containing the questionable coding pattern.
2010-03-09Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010d: DST law changes in Fiji,Alvaro Herrera
Samoa, Chile; corrections to recent changes in Paraguay and Bangladesh.
2010-03-09Return proper exit code (3) from psql when ON_ERROR_STOP=on andBruce Momjian
--single-transaction are both used and the failure happens in commit, e.g. failed deferred trigger. Also properly free BEGIN/COMMIT result structures from --single-transaction. Per report from Dominic Bevacqua
2010-03-08Backport fix from HEAD that makes ecpglib give the right SQLSTATE if the ↵Michael Meskes
connection disappears.
2010-03-08Require hostname to be set when using GSSAPI authentication. Without it,Magnus Hagander
the GSSAPI libraries crash. Noted by Zdenek Kotala
2010-03-08Disallow gssapi authentication on local connections, since itMagnus Hagander
requires a hostname to function. Noted by Zdenek Kotala
2010-03-08Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010c: DST law changes inTom Lane
Bangladesh, Mexico, Paraguay.
2010-03-06Fix warning messages in restrict_and_check_grant() to include the column nameTom Lane
when warning about column-level privileges. This is more useful than before and makes the apparent duplication complained of by Piyush Newe not so duplicate. Also fix lack of quote marks in a related message text. Back-patch to 8.4, where column-level privileges were introduced. Stephen Frost
2010-03-06When reading pg_hba.conf and similar files, do not treat @file as an inclusionTom Lane
unless (1) the @ isn't quoted and (2) the filename isn't empty. This guards against unexpectedly treating usernames or other strings in "flat files" as inclusion requests, as seen in a recent trouble report from Ed L. The empty-filename case would be guaranteed to misbehave anyway, because our subsequent path-munging behavior results in trying to read the directory containing the current input file. I think this might finally explain the report at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-05/msg00132.php of a crash after printing "authentication file token too long, skipping", since I was able to duplicate that message (though not a crash) on a platform where stdio doesn't refuse to read directories. We never got far in investigating that problem, but now I'm suspicious that the trigger condition was an @ in the flat password file. Back-patch to all active branches since the problem can be demonstrated in all branches except HEAD. The test case, creating a user named "@", doesn't cause a problem in HEAD since we got rid of the flat password file. Nonetheless it seems like a good idea to not consider quoted @ as a file inclusion spec, so I changed HEAD too.
2010-03-04Fix IsBinaryCoercible to not confuse a cast using in/out functionsHeikki Linnakangas
with binary compatibility. Backpatch to 8.4 where INOUT casts were introduced.
2010-03-03Fix a couple of places that would loop forever if attempts to read a stdio fileTom Lane
set ferror() but never set feof(). This is known to be the case for recent glibc when trying to read a directory as a file, and might be true for other platforms/cases too. Per report from Ed L. (There is more that we ought to do about his report, but this is one easily identifiable issue.)
2010-03-03Fix pg_dump of ACLs of foreign servers. The command to grant/revokeHeikki Linnakangas
privileges of foreign servers is "GRANT ... ON *FOREIGN* SERVER ...".
2010-03-03Export xml.c's libxml-error-handling support so that contrib/xml2 can use itTom Lane
too, instead of duplicating the functionality (badly). I renamed xml_init to pg_xml_init, because the former seemed just a bit too generic to be safe as a global symbol. I considered likewise renaming xml_ereport to pg_xml_ereport, but felt that the reference to ereport probably made it sufficiently PG-centric already.